Robin Hood

3 stars out of 5

I believe the phrase I am looking for here is a dog's breakfast. For starts, two and one half hours? I mean really. This is not a Gandhi biopic. And as for Russell Crowe's accent--well, you may have heard he walked off a BBC Radio 4 program on which the interviewer was questioning his accent for the film, calling it a little Irish. Seems fair to me. I don't know what accent Robin Hood was meant to have, but I doubt Crowe's was it. The plot was utterly confusing for the first half hour, although it did gradually resolve itself into a lace curtain of plot holes. Some interesting performances, lovely scenery, and a handful of (no doubt) somewhat historically accurate battle scenes.

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The one bit of cleverness was that it turns out the entire film is back story--Robin Hood does not become an outlaw until the last scene

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So, unless you love Crowe, or well done historical CGI battle scenes, you won't be missing much if you take a pass on this film. I know Oscar will.